Darky,
I think he is asking for something which can change stuff on the fly rather than just looking at the hardware. There is a utility called cpufrequtils on gutsy atleast, I think the same is on Feisty :-
Code:
shirish@Mugglewille:~$ aptitude show cpufrequtils
Package: cpufrequtils
New: yes
State: not installed
Version: 002-5
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 209k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-5), libcpufreq0, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, lsb-base (>= 3.0)
Description: utilities to deal with the cpufreq Linux kernel feature
This package contains two utilities for inspecting and setting the cpu frequency through both the sysfs and
procfs CPUFreq kernel interfaces.
To throttle the CPU do the following :-
First install cpufrequtils
Code:
sudo aptitude install cpufrequeutils
Now one can do it in many ways, two different ways are told in :-
How to use cpufrequtils - ThinkWiki
as well as
How to make use of Dynamic Frequency Scaling - ThinkWiki
Enjoy your throttling